Do not rejoice too early
And let some oracle proclaim
The wounds do not reopen
That evil crowds don’t rise again,
That the dead enemy no longer calls
And that I risk to seem retarded;
Let him orate. I firmly know that
Stalin is not dead.

As if the dead alone had mattered
And those who vanished nameless in the North.
The evil he implanted in our hearts,
Had it not truly done the damage?
As long as poverty divides from wealth
As long as we don’t stop the lies
And don’t unlearn to fear
Stalin is not dead.

As long as morons who hate Jews
Are not yet tamed in our country,
The splendid, well-groomed khans,
The brutal clerks of power,
As long as the briber remains cocky,
The red-tape artist unperturbed
And the informer is rewarded,
Stalin is not dead.

Isn’t it according to old habit
That they are prone
To choke with cutting ropes
All that is young and new?
The road to glory is not even.
As long as, to the joys of the well fed,
The riffraff baits the Pasternaks,
Stalin is not dead.

Doesn’t Stalin’s spirit hide in us,
Cowardly and predatory both,
If we don’t look for truth
But, rather, fear the new?
I’ll throw myself on falsehood
And shall not yield to that which was.
But what to do when inside us
Stalin is not dead?

I pledge to the merry banner
To fight for justice honestly,
Keep the steep and salty road
In combat with the evil brood,
Not to deroute nor to retract
Nor to surrender to fatigue
As long as I will breathe and
Stalin is not dead.

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